1. The science of autographs; a person's own handwriting; an autograph.
2. A process in lithography by which a writing or drawing is transferred from paper to stone. Ure.
Autolatry
(Au*tol"a*try) n. [Auto- + Gr. worship.] Self-worship. Farrar.
Automath
(Au"to*math) n. [Gr. self + to learn.] One who is self-taught. [R.] Young.
Automatic
(Au`to*mat"ic Au`to*mat"ic*al) a. [Cf. F. automatique. See Automaton.]
1. Having an inherent power of action or motion.
Nothing can be said to be automatic.
Sir H. Davy.
2. Pertaining to, or produced by, an automaton; of the nature of an automaton; self-acting or self-regulating
under fixed conditions; — esp. applied to machinery or devices in which certain things formerly or usually
done by hand are done by the machine or device itself; as, the automatic feed of a lathe; automatic gas
lighting; an automatic engine or switch; an automatic mouse.
3. Not voluntary; not depending on the will; mechanical; as, automatic movements or functions.
Unconscious or automatic reasoning.
H. Spenser.
Automatic arts, such economic arts or manufacture as are carried on by self-acting machinery. Ure.
Automatically
(Au`to*mat"ic*al*ly), adv. In an automatic manner.
Automatism
(Au*tom"a*tism) n. The state or quality of being automatic; the power of self-moving; automatic,
mechanical, or involuntary action. (Metaph.) A theory as to the activity of matter.
Automaton
(Au*tom"a*ton) n.; pl. L. Automata E. Automatons [L. fr. Gr. neut. of self-moving; self +
a root ma, man, to strive, think, cf. to strive. See Mean, v. i.]
1. Any thing or being regarded as having the power of spontaneous motion or action. Huxley.
So great and admirable an automaton as the world.
Boyle.
These living automata, human bodies.
Boyle.
2. A self-moving machine, or one which has its motive power within itself; — applied chiefly to machines
which appear to imitate spontaneously the motions of living beings, such as men, birds, etc.
Automatous
(Au*tom"a*tous) a. [L. automatus, Gr. . See Automaton.] Automatic. [Obs.] "Automatous
organs." Sir T. Browne.
Automorphic
(Au`to*mor"phic) a. [Auto- + Gr. for, shape.] Patterned after one's self.
The conception which any one frames of another's mind is more or less after the pattern of his own
mind, — is automorphic.
H. Spenser.
Automorphism
(Au`to*mor"phism) n. Automorphic characterization. H. Spenser.
Autonomasy
(Au`to*nom"a*sy) n. [Auto- + Gr. a name, fr. a name; or for E. antonomasia.] (Rhet.)
The use of a word of common or general signification for the name of a particular thing; as, "He has
gone to town," for, "He has gone to London."
Autonomic
(Au`to*nom"ic) a. Having the power of self-government; autonomous. Hickok.
